Halifax man arrested on Canada-wide warrant

Blake Stymest, 27 was in the Lindsay jail on unrelated charges and released on Saturday when police re-arrested him on a Canada-wide warrant

Peterborough This Week

(LINDSAY) A Halifax man had just been released from the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay when he was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant on Saturday (Dec. 1).

Kawartha Lakes Police Sergeant Terry Cox said CECC officials informed police that Blake Stymest, 27, who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant issued by Halifax police had been released.

Sgt. Cox said Mr. Stymest was in jail on charges unrelated to the warrant when he was released.

"We received information through the CECC and he was arrested," the officer said, adding the man was stopped on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 1) on Highway 36.

Mr. Stymest, of no fixed address is wanted for six counts of living wholly or in part on the avails of prostitution of another person, two counts of procuring, six counts of gaining exercises control over movements of a person, two counts of keeping a common bawdy-house, and uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.

Sgt. Cox said he had a bail hearing in Oshawa on the weekend and was remanded in custody for six days "to give Halifax police time to come and pick him up."